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A Turbulent Wake ‘Following on the warm critical reception given to Henry Marsh’s first collection of poems… this new volume gives us further insight into the mind of one of Scotland’s finest poets. The influence of the Hebrides is again strong – that world where, as the poet observes, people do not lock there doors – but, as in his first collection, Henry Marsh takes us a good deal further here and includes both a number of moving personal poems and more formal reflections of art. The result is a stunning collection.
This is a book
which gives us a moment of civil company in a strident world, a
book which is in every sense lovely; a book with gentle resonances
that heal and persist, like the memories of this beguiling islands
that shape many of these poems.’ From reviews of A Turbulent Wake:
‘A Scots poet, he
shares with us his love of his birthplace: its austere beauty, the
quality of its light, its language…This collection is a song of
life, often at its most raw. Marsh is a master of shifting
perspectives… ( he) is fascinated by the act of creation in its
widest sense – what it means to be human and how humanity finds
beauty in art.’ |
Snow Sky over Fife Cover painting by John Brown |
